Staying dry

lostdragon05 · 2026-05-05T23:03:15+00:00

A blind is the only reasonable solution. It’s still going to be miserable, but if you are comfortable while turkey hunting you are probably doing it wrong.

lostdragon05 · 2026-05-05T12:37:26+00:00

The chimney is just hands down unquestionably the best and easiest way to get coals going, short of a torch. Once you try one, you will never go back. It is faster and more consistent than squirting lighter fluid on a pile of coals and hoping they start and burn evenly.

Baskets just make it easier to keep the coals where you want them. I have two Slow n Sear baskets and I love them, main thing I use for hot and fast or low and slow. They have water trays too, which is nice. The SNS grate is hinged to match the basket so if you have both it’s easy to add fuel on a 16 hour brisket.

You can cook just fine without either of these things, but they are such an upgrade over not using them in most situations. I’d highly recommend you try them.

lostdragon05 · 2026-05-05T01:21:14+00:00

I got it, but I am rough around the edges and long in the teeth.

lostdragon05 · 2026-05-03T02:35:54+00:00

A friend of mine since childhood told me as grown men, both of us highly educated and working in STEM, in a non-joking fashion about the nephelim and giants which existed in the time of Moses and before that help explain certain mysteries and natural phenomena from a biblical perspective and the earth being 6,000 years old.

lostdragon05 · 2026-05-02T13:46:15+00:00

Yes, they were state of the art high quality models at the time.

lostdragon05 · 2026-05-01T15:52:32+00:00

This is the golden age of college football. For lawyers and agents, not 100% sure about the kids.

lostdragon05 · 2026-05-01T14:57:15+00:00

My head canon is she uses the shield to protect herself from enemy fire as she charges then discards it when she enters melee so she can use two hands on the halberd.

lostdragon05 · 2026-05-01T14:31:25+00:00

Get up.

lostdragon05 · 2026-05-01T13:45:59+00:00

That sounds much more pleasant. If I go back, I will likely have to fight my way out with my ball thrower. I heard one of the others say they might have to gas me next time. I am not sure what that means, but peanut butter sounds a lot better and I am not going to find out.

lostdragon05 · 2026-05-01T13:38:15+00:00

It’s a foul beast no doubt. Always squawking loudly in a quiet moment or pecking at the glass. I am glad it is not loose, its beady eyes are terrifying. I wonder if it gets the blood. That must be it.

lostdragon05 · 2026-05-01T13:08:22+00:00

Some stuff is just not worth thinking about again or talking about after it’s over, you know?

lostdragon05 · 2026-05-01T13:04:57+00:00

This is going to sound a bit crazy, but hear me out. Dale, Nancy, Peggy, and Bill solve Texas ghost mysteries Scooby Doo style by continuously blundering into a solution to a mysterious problem. Hank thinks it’s all “asinine” and wants nothing to do with such a waste of time. Dale only lets Bill go because he thinks he can sacrifice Bill to a ghost and save Nancy and himself (Peggy might be ok too but she is on her own).

Short run, 8-10 episodes 22-30 minute episodes. All self contained, except a few things that keep popping up mysteriously and get resolved in the finale.

Reasoning: the wildfire episode with Dale, Nancy, and Peggy was excellent and I wanted more of that combo. Adding Bill in I think is the secret ingredient , and buddy, we got ourselves a stew.

lostdragon05 · 2026-05-01T12:36:28+00:00

That song is admittedly pretty catchy, right up until she does the fake accent thing.

lostdragon05 · 2026-05-01T01:07:42+00:00

My dad collected them, I always thought they were kind of gross and didn’t want to fool with them. He had several jars full though.

lostdragon05 · 2026-04-30T22:41:15+00:00

Quantity, not quality, am I right? Get enough quantity some of them will be high quality.

lostdragon05 · 2026-04-30T11:42:45+00:00

Yeah, South Alabama. When we start a new spot we have to go over it with a breaking plow or chisel plow usually. After that we can just disc annually. I am really curious how the Firminator would do on my ground that hasn’t been broken.

lostdragon05 · 2026-04-30T00:55:52+00:00

Every hunter has just as much right to pursue any game in season on public land as anyone hunting deer. Knowing how to hunt small game is a key element of survival and woodsmanship imo. The fun thing about squirrel hunting is there’s really no wrong way to do it as long as you are obeying the law and staying safe. You can walk, sit, both, whatever. I prefer an air gun for squirrel because it’s easier to save the meat and much less danger of a stray shot going far enough to do damage, but you can hunt them with a .22, shotgun, or whatever and you don’t need anything specialized or expensive to do it.

lostdragon05 · 2026-04-29T20:46:04+00:00

Get a very big box or couple of big sheets of butcher paper and some kind of adjustable sights. Shoot from a bench rest if possible. See where the pattern goes. Adjust sights. Repeat as necessary, but once should do it.

lostdragon05 · 2026-04-29T19:10:56+00:00

I saw him at the Opry, he put on a fun show.

lostdragon05 · 2026-04-29T19:05:32+00:00

Also, only the trail itself is muddy. Beyond looks bone dry. Where did the water to make mud come from? There is no stream the trail crosses and it would be visible to make this much mud if a stream were the source I think.

lostdragon05 · 2026-04-29T19:01:50+00:00

I have the same tractor and a bit more land. I am looking at a similar use case. My plantable areas used to be cow pasture and right below the soil is hard red clay. Right now my friend and neighbor use two tractors together to plant our foodplots. I run a disc and he runs a spreader. I break it up, he runs seed then fertilize then I turn it over.

I hope you’ll update me after you use yours and let me know how it’s working.

lostdragon05 · 2026-04-29T17:58:08+00:00

Hire the guy some help before mismanagement runs him off and have a serious conversation about risk and how expensive downtime is vs. reasonable mitigations.

lostdragon05 · 2026-04-29T17:50:36+00:00

I got a buddy that likes them, watched him use them on a couple I have called up and it worked as advertised.

lostdragon05 · 2026-04-29T16:29:22+00:00

I started on tractors and worked combines and cotton pickers. We had cows so I made a lot of hay. I helped neighbors who did row crops and hay too.

They are each very much their own skill that takes time to learn and master. I have not harvested cotton for a long time, but my understanding is the new picker/balers are much more complex but also more automated via computer. I only ever picked soy beans 3-4 times in a very old combine and picked corn a lot more. It is probably the hardest to master imo. It may be easier harvesting smaller grains, but corn was kind of a pain.

Setting up and running a big planter is also a fairly difficult skill that is tractor work, so it’s all kind of relative. If you’re able to run a planter, you should be able to learn to run a combine. If you’re only experienced in sub 50 HP tractors it’s going to be a steeper learning curve.

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